Molly Sullivan and a Sports Media Roundtable with Austin Karp and Rob Littal

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2018

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Episode 12 of the Sports Media podcast with Richard Deitsch features Molly Sullivan, the popular television sideline reporter on Philadelphia 76ers games who was unexpectedly let go last week by NBC Sports Philadelphia after six years on the job. In this podcast, Sullivan describes in frank terms what happens when you lose your sports media job unexpectedly; what NBC Sports Philadelphia told her about its decision and what they didn’t tell her; how Sixers fans have started a petition on her behalf; covering a team for years that was the worst in the NBA and the challenges of covering a losing team; her on-air relationship with Sixers star Joel Embiid; Sixers coach Brett Brown reaching out to her after he heard she was let go; what she expects from the Sixers heading forward; what she hopes to do next; her thoughts on the Bryan Colangelo story; competing at the 2000 U.S. Olympic Team Trials in distance swimming, and much more. The second part of the podcast is a roundtable with Sports Business Daily assistant managing editor Austin Karp and Black Sports Online founder Robert Littal. Karp discusses the Word Cup viewership numbers so far and what they mean for Fox Sports and Telemundo; the viewership numbers to expect later in the World Cup tournament; Littal discusses ESPN’s NBA Draft coverage and what worked and what didn’t; Karp discusses MLB’s current ratings regionally and nationally; Littal and Karp discusses the state of ESPN and FS1’s daytime talk shows, and much more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Richard Ditch and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer, as always, is Lou Pellegrino. We have a guest this week and then a roundtable. The guest is Molly Sullivan. She is very familiar to Philadelphia's Sixers fans. For six years, she was the sideline reporter on Sixers television, incredibly popular, did a great great job and in a move that has been
0:22.2	universally panned by Sixers fans and NBA fans NBC Sports Philadelphia let her go unexpectedly.
0:29.2	She comes on for 40 minutes or so and discusses that decision, why it happened, and I think
0:35.5	it's really pretty remarkable insight into somebody who should not
0:38.9	have lost their job, but lost their job. We follow that up with a roundtable with Austin Karp. He is
0:45.5	the Sports Business Daily's assistant managing editor and one of the country's foremost experts
0:50.8	when it comes to sports television ratings. And a regular on this podcast, we love when he's on.
0:55.5	It's Robert Lattel, the founder and editor of Black Sports Online.
1:00.0	So Molly Sullivan first, and then a roundtable with Austin Karp and Robert Lattel coming up on the sports media podcast with Richard Deich.
1:08.1	All right, and as I said at the top, we bring in Molly Sullivan.
1:12.2	And we're going to get into what went down with her in Philadelphia, which has been
1:18.5	rightfully a very big story in sports media circles.
1:23.3	And Molly Sullivan, welcome to the sports media podcast.
1:26.4	Hey, thanks so much, Richard.
1:27.9	All right, Molly, first before we get into NBC Sports Philadelphia, letting you go,
1:34.3	I want to just give people a sense of what your job has been like with or covering Sixers
1:40.9	game over the last couple of years because the position that you're in really
1:45.8	can be different in different cities depending on how much airtime you get, how much the
1:51.9	sideline reporter is part of the broadcast. In some broadcast, they go to the sideline
1:57.3	reporter is essentially almost like a third color analyst. In other places, they barely
2:01.5	get some time. So for those who are outside of Philadelphia, can you give them a sense of what
2:06.8	your responsibilities were on Sixers broadcasts? Yeah, you bet. So I joined the 76ers in April
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